The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship invites affiliations from organizations that serve the interests of human communication fields (e.g., mass communication, rhetoric, speech, journalism, social linguistics, communication studies, telematics, public relations, etc.).

The CIOS can provide the following types of services for affiliate organizations:

WWW and e-mail based access to organizational materials and products

E-mail based mass distribution of organizational newsletters

License to use CIOS DOS based electronic journal software for distribution of organizational journals

Full text indexing and dissemination of textual material (e.g., conference abstracts)

Other custom database services